CAPE-SV

Duration

36 months

General approach/description of the project

The objective of this project is to use ECVET principles or credit accumulation and transfer in the performing arts sector in order to secure staff career pathways and to ensure that credit gained can be internationally recognised.

The project defined common learning outcomes for technicians and administrative personnel of the sector. Using the ECVET principles, these were grouped into units of learning outcomes. The common units of learning outcomes are based on an analysis of existing national qualifications. It is envisaged that units and qualifications can be achieved both through formal training (initial or continuous) and through validation of non-formal and informal learning.

A common grid for assessment and validation wasl developed and made applicable to the different national qualifications concerned. It wasl accompanied by methodological guidelines for the assessment. An important aspect of the approach used by the CAPE-SV project is that of peer review. It was planned to form transnational juries to test and validate the assessment grid throughout the duration of the project. A procedure and a mobility programme is aimed at, that will include the terms of a trans-national agreement of recognition between partners.

Target group

Young people in initial training; adults in ongoing training and retraining; professionals

Dissemination

The final conference of the project has been held on December 9 in Prague.

The partners have signed a Memorandum of Understanding regulating their further cooperation; they will continue working together and try and facilitate mobility among students in their faculties.

Transfer And Accumulation

The project partners in this partnership are all competent authorities with important levels of autonomy with regard to validating and recognising learning outcomes. Consequently, they are the main institutions who ultimately decide on learners’ transfer or credit.

Units of learning outcomes

The project CAPE-SV is not developing common units of learning outcomes. The basis of their approach is to develop tools to enable the project partners to describe the content of their qualifications in a transparent manner using learning outcomes. Learning outcomes are to be grouped according to stages of the production process in the performance arts industry: planning, designing, implementing, evaluating. For this purpose the project has developed a grid through which the project partners can describe their qualifications or their parts using some common categories. The grid describes the learning outcomes using a colour code which reflects the different components of a learning outcomes description (active verb, object, context, etc.). The project involved practitioners from the field in designing this grid and in validating that it was feasible and understandable. The above mentioned grid should also contain information about the evidence that learners are expected to have about the achievement of given learning outcomes in case they seek recognition of qualifications or credit among the partner institutions.

ECVET Points

The ECVET Points in the project are closely related to the duration of learning activities be it contact time or practical learning.